Chapter 50 Jianjian is a little crybaby
"All clansmen, step back." A voice leaning on a cane appeared at the entrance of the hall. An old woman with a hunched back and wearing a black veil appeared. After the clansmen left, she slowly walked up to Chi Wenqing and stopped. "Young Master, please come with me to the Holy Land. That thing is sealed in the Divine Tree."
"Grandma Wan... how did you come out of the Holy Land? Your health..." Wan Qinghuan looked at her with concern.
Granny Wan shook her wooden cane without answering, then looked at Mu Jianjian and said, "Young lady, our clan deeply regrets the previous poisoning and kidnapping incident. We will give you an explanation."
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Mu Jianjian came to this place again. The giant tree stood tall and straight into the sky, its deep green color filling her eyes, but the withered and decaying atmosphere beside its branches could not be ignored.
Strange runes were floating on the open grassland, and fine threads were wrapped around the branches, clearly indicating that they were prepared for the original sacrificial ceremony.
“My clan was cursed ten thousand years ago and trapped in a secret realm to eke out a living. Now the divine tree is being corrupted,” Granny Wan sighed, looking at the tree in front of her. “The degree to which our clansmen have been transformed into trees is becoming more and more serious.”
As she spoke, she lifted her right hand, which was covered by her robe, revealing a twig wrapped around her and gripping a wooden staff!
"You are the only one whose destiny intersects with our clan among the countless causal lines I have calculated, which is why I have resorted to this desperate measure." Granny Wan straightened her sleeves again, her cloudy eyes filled with helpless sorrow.
"If we fail to seize this last opportunity, the passage of time will eventually leave our Wood Spirit Clan behind, and all of us will truly become the trees here, eventually turning into soil and dust."
Mu Jianjian's expression was indifferent. "So what does it have to do with me?"
"Our clan has a secret method that can merge your soul into the tree spirit, at which time you can use your soul to remove the black energy caused by the curse."
"Can't your souls enter?"
“My race is originally tree spirits, and we will be rejected.”
"What does my senior brother need to retrieve?" Mu Jianjian tugged at Chi Wenqing's sleeve, signaling him not to speak yet.
"In the Tree Spirit." Granny Wan answered her question slowly and deliberately, her expression humble and sincere.
Mu Jianjian seemed to be deep in thought.
So, in the Wood Spirit Clan's original plan, they would control themselves to retrieve that thing after the ritual was completed. Unfortunately, they didn't expect that they knew their senior brother.
“Jianjian, there’s no need to worry,” Chi Wenqing chuckled. “Just cut down this broken tree, and what I need will naturally come out.”
Mu Jianjian: ! !
Although she had no intention of saving the Wood Spirit Clan, her senior brother's idea of directly severing someone's life force was truly terrifying!
How distorted has the plot gone?
Why did the gentle and refined senior brother turn into this dark side so early?
No, no, her original goal was to correct her senior brother into a virtuous and upright young man!
After hearing Chi Wenqing's words, Granny Wan looked at Wan Qinghuan beside her with a cold and resolute gaze.
Wan Qinghuan seemed to understand something, and her hand instantly transformed into a sharp wooden blade, stabbing towards her own heart!
"What are you doing!" Mu Jianjian was startled and quickly shook Chi Wenqing beside her. "Senior brother, stop her quickly."
Chi Wenqing stared at Wan Qinghuan, who was contemplating suicide, his eyes cold and devoid of any emotion. Only when his arm was pulled did he show helplessness and deliberately slow down his attack.
His Jianjian is still too kind.
With Chi Wenqing's intervention, Wan Qinghuan was spared death, but the wooden blade was still half-pierced into her body, gushing out blood.
Mu Jianjian frowned, "You don't need to do this."
This is self-destruction; he wants to apologize to her!
"It's just a token of our sincerity." Granny Wan bowed. "In order to reverse the decline of the divine tree, our clan has tried various methods over the past hundred years. Now, we have no regrets and are not afraid of any sacrifice."
Mu Jianjian originally wanted to help her senior brother retrieve what he wanted, but now that she saw Wan Qinghuan kneeling on one knee with a resolute and unwavering expression, she finally sighed.
“Jianjian, it’s very dangerous for your soul to leave your body.” Chi Wenqing saw through his junior sister’s decision and said reluctantly.
“Isn’t that what you’re here for?” Mu Jianjian looked at Chi Wenqing and smiled. “Senior brother, I will get what you need. Trust me.”
The girl's bright smile was reflected in Chi Wenqing's deep gaze, and his expression darkened.
Granny Wan finally relaxed, expressed her gratitude, and then called her clansmen to prepare the items needed for the upcoming sacrificial ceremony.
Mu Jianjian watched as Wan Qinghuan was helped away, and gradually only the two of them remained around.
She noticed she was still holding onto Chi Wenqing's arm, and instinctively pulled back, whispering, "Senior brother, you—"
The sound is drawn out and then paused.
Chi Wenqing sensed that his junior sister was hesitant to speak, and knew that she was afraid of making things difficult for him if she asked too many questions. He smiled and said, "Jianjian, as long as it's you, I will tell you everything I know."
The familiar, gentle senior brother is back!
Mu Jianjian took a deep breath and bombarded her with questions in rapid succession, "Senior Brother, have you been alright since we parted last time? I heard from Yu Yu and Yue Yue that you killed that Golden Crow male cultivator? I was so worried about you, and I haven't heard from you since I woke up..."
The girl's concern was direct and ardent.
He was narrow-minded for not asking about his abilities or investigating his identity.
Chi Wenqing's smile deepened, "I'm fine, Jianjian."
Mu Jianjian lowered her head and whispered, "Actually, I can tell. Senior Brother, you were pretending to condense your Qi because the demonic cultivators from Yingzhou were lurking in the shadows, right?"
She could only guess based on the original book.
The current Demon Lord of Yingzhou, wary of the growing Chi Wenqing, sent some people to secretly investigate, but dared not make a move openly.
Now that my senior brother is in the territory of the Wood Spirit Clan, he is not afraid of any cultivators from Yingzhou entering, so he can naturally reveal his true cultivation level.
His little one is very smart.
Chi Wenqing nodded slowly under the girl's gaze.
But it wasn't just the people from Yingzhou who were hunting him down...
In his previous life, he suffered greatly in the secret realm before finally figuring out the reason.
Now reborn, he will reclaim everything he has step by step and eliminate all those things one by one.
Mu Jianjian felt extremely guilty, "I'm sorry, senior brother, it's all my fault that you were exposed..."
Chi Wenqing looked at the girl pouting and chuckled as he ruffled her hair. “I have a magical artifact that can temporarily alter the hexagram and energy array, so Jianjian doesn’t need to feel bad or guilty.”
Mu Jianjian blinked curiously.
Are there still such ritual implements?
Chi Wenqing's heart melted when he saw the girl's starry eyes. He took out a square jade plate and placed it in Mu Jianjian's hand.
"By condensing Qi and adding chess pieces, the orientation and hexagram can be changed..."
A clear and patient voice explained the principle, and the old man's soul inside Chi Wenqing's body almost popped its eyes out.
You must know that ten thousand years ago, the young prince treasured this Luo Gua chess set so much that anyone who touched it would lose an arm!
Now you're just giving it to this little girl like this, and you're even explaining it so patiently?
Mu Jianjian, being a lazy bum, didn't understand what her senior brother was saying at all; she simply thought this set of moves must be good for playing Gomoku.
She noticed obvious carving marks on the jade plate and chess pieces, and even the edges of some chess pieces were not completely smoothed out.
I don't know who made it, it's sloppy and ugly, it doesn't do justice to her senior brother at all!
Mu Jianjian is confident that if she makes it herself, it will definitely be a million times better than this!
After returning the jade plate to Chi Wenqing, Mu Jianjian suddenly recalled the scene where she had accidentally shed tears while being controlled earlier—
"Senior brother, I didn't actually intend to cry before."
It just feels like it's been so long since I've seen you, and tears are streaming down my face.
It feels like an eternity, even though only a few days have passed.
Mu Jianjian felt it was necessary to explain herself!
“I know, Jianjian.”
He always knew that Jianjian was a crybaby.
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